Exam 1: Jeopardy Flashcards
The smallest amount of a stimulus we can detect
absolute threshold
Location where the visual processing takes place in the brain
visual cortex/occipital lobe
The difference between sensation and perception
Sensation is the physical input, perception is how we interpret the input
What is Weber’s law?
The just noticeable difference is a constant proportion of the intensity of an initial stimulus
The part of the neuron that receives messages
Dendrite
This is the name of the part of the nervous system responsible for fight or flight
Sympathetic nervous system
this is the part of the brain that deals with reasoning, planning and responsibility
frontal lobe
If you were to cut this part of the brain, you would end up with a split brain person. This essentially is the part of the brain that separates the right and left hemisphere
Corpus callosum
The 2 parts of the body with the largest representation in the motor cortex
face and hands
Anything that can take on more than one value
variable
the only type of research that can identify causation
experiment
The kind of variable type of study is when a researcher is studying college students, and randomly assigns some to study in groups while others are assigned to study individually
independent variable
The name for defining what you are
operationalize
Define psychology
scientific study of behavior
Who opened the first psychology lab?
Wilhelm Wundt
